DOE X-ray Light Sources and Pharmaceutical Discovery
Stephen R. Wasserman
Global Structural Biology Eli Lilly and Company
Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories November 4, 2014
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Structural Biology
Indianapolis Argonne San Diego
Chemistry
Alcobendas, Spain Erl Wood, UK Shanghai
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Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Pharmaceutical Development
• Strategic Portfolio Management & New Influencers in R&D Decision-Making • https://www.quintiles.com/assets/0/111/118/233/1336/313de5b8-3332-4bf5-a654-f2396c58e231.pdf
Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 3 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Pharma at the Advanced Photon Source
• mid-1980’s • Pharma companies discuss • Lilly and Upjohn • 1990 • IMCA founded • March 15, 1991 • IMCA-CAT Proposal • 1996: First light Lilly Research Laboratories Beamline
Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 4 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Structure guided design
Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 5 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Structural Biology/Chemistry
Protein Structure analysis Molecular Protein Protein Biophysical Protein Solu on Biology Purifica on Characteriza on Methods Crystalliza on Synchrotron & Bioinforma cs Refinement
Chemical Synthe c Design Chemistry
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• Median time to evaluate a crystal after its creation: 32 hours, including ~16 hours to ship the sample • Lilly crystals, 2013
• Median time to collect a dataset after creation of a crystal: 40 hours, including time to ship
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Protein Targets Structures
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Structures (2012) APS Hours (FY2013)
4000 35000 3500 30000 3000 25000 2500 20000 2000 15000 1500 1000 10000 500 5000 0 0 Pharma PDB Proprietary Nonproprietary
• Structures from survey of US pharmaceutical research (10 companies) • Hours for Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) at the APS
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• Dedicated Industrial Staff • Diamond Light Source (UK): 7 • ESRF (France): 6 • Canadian Light Source: 7 staff
• Full Service available • Staff support does not affect intellectual property
• DOE: “Limited non-collaborative support services”
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• Diamond Light Source (United Kingdom) • “DLS hereby agrees to assign and hereby assigns to the Customer the Intellectual Property Rights in the Results.” • ESRF (France) • “ESRF hereby assigns to
Contract terms presented with permission of DLS, ESRF, and CLS
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• DOE Master User Agreement • “With respect to any Subject Invention reported and elected…, User may elect to obtain the entire right, title and interest in any patent application files in any country on a Subject Invention and in any resulting patent secured by USER.” • “If USER wishes to elect title to the Subject Invention, a notice of election should be submitted with the report or within one year of such date of reporting of the Subject Invention.”
11/17/14 Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 12 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Vannevar Bush
Science the Endless Frontier 1945
“Research involving expensive capital facilities beyond the capacity of private institutions should be advanced by active Government support.”
Non-Confidential Presentation November 4, 2014 13 Copyright© 2014 Eli Lilly and Company US Synchrotron Users: Pharmaceuticals
Novartis Genentech Merck BMS Pfizer Takeda Lilly Amgen Glaxo SmithKline AbbVie Gilead Vertex
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